Chernobyl: 15 years later, dangers from atomic energy still linger
Posted: April 16, 2001Chernobyl: 15 years later, dangers from atomic energy still lingerBy Harvey WassermanApril 17, 2001Fifteen years ago, the world awoke to its most convincing argument for an end to...
View ArticleNuclear reactors pose apocalyptic dangers
Posted: September 12, 2001Nuclear reactors pose apocalyptic dangersBy Harvey WassermanSeptember 13, 2001As the horror of the September 11 terrorist attacks begins to sink in, one of the most sobering...
View ArticleOhio GOP Sends a Stealth Death Notice to Public College Teachers Unions
Posted: April 2, 2011An obscure clause that was slipped into Ohio's infamous anti-union Senate Bill 5 may spell the end of collective bargaining for the state's public college teachers.Topics:...
View ArticleThe Shadow of Fukushima
Posted: April 25, 2011The earthquake and tsunami that ripped through the ten reactors at Fukushima, Japan, did not come as a surprise to me.Topics: Nuclear Energy
View ArticleThe 2d Amendment does NOT condone random slaughter
Posted: December 17, 2012The Second Amendment does NOT guarantee the right of any and all citizens to own any and all kinds of guns.It DEMANDS, in the name of national security, that we regulate...
View ArticleAbolish the Electoral College, Fast!
Posted: February 2, 2013The Electoral College is the only college where George W. Bush did really well. He and his cohorts used it to steal two consecutive presidential elections and put the nation...
View ArticleThe Tower that Toppled a Terrible Technology
Posted: February 27, 2013There it stood, 500 feet of insult and injury. And then it crashed to the ground.The weather tower at the proposed Montague double-reactor complex was meant to test wind...
View ArticleOhio: Anti-democracy at work
Posted: May 6, 2013Swing state Ohio mocks the very idea of democracy. As it so often does, Ohio reflects a national trend: this one the plunge toward corporate one-party state governments very much at...
View ArticleSan Onofre Is Dead and So Is Nuclear Power
Posted: June 8, 2013(Editor's Note: On Friday, Southern California Edison announced that it was not going to restart the San Onofre nuclear power plant and that, in fact, the plant was going to be shut...
View ArticleYou Think the Fukushima Disaster Is Over? Think Again
Posted: July 23, 2013Radiation leaks, steam releases, disease and death continue to spew from Fukushima in a disaster that is far from over. It's most profound threat to the global ecology -- a spent...
View ArticleNuclear Reactors Can’t Handle Global Warming
Posted: August 5, 2013An overheated world now threatens the ability of nuclear reactors to operate at all.Just as the sales pitch that atomic energy could help with global warming gets its biggest...
View ArticleThe Fukushima Nightmare Gets Worse
Posted: August 8, 2013Just when it seemed things might be under control at Fukushima, we find they are worse than ever.Immeasurably worse.Massive quantities of radioactive liquids are now flowing...
View ArticlePut Best Scientists on the Ground at Fukushima!
Posted: September 24, 2013The crisis the world faces at Fukushima is devastatingly simple: Neither the utility (Tepco) nor the government (Japan) can handle a situation that threatens us all.It's not...
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